Austria's leading new style craft brewery presenting this black IPA, which has apparently made it into this site's top-50 in its category - I'm very intrigued, thanks again to Davor for this bottle. Thick and regular, very mousy, pale yellowish beige, papery lacing, creamy head over a clear, very dark chocolate brown beer with ruby hue, blackish in general appearance but still translucent under bright light. Aroma of burnt toast, pine needles, crushed black peppercorns, fried horn of plenty mushrooms, black olives, leather, bayleaf, old frying oil, charcoal, salmiak, sage. Sweetish note in the onset (old raisin) but very restrainedly so, clean, black olive umami touch, light sourish undertone, medium carbonation; oily, walnutty and toasty middle with the toasted bitterness soon superseded by a long, spicy, piney, resinous hop bitterness, grapefruity and peppery, taking over from the malt bitterness without becoming too harsh - the trademark of any top quality BIPA. And this is indeed a top quality BIPA, a textbook example of the style, very classic in a way but delicious and remarkably well-executed. Glad I had this one, a really good BIPA is a rarity these days with that whole NEIPA buzz.

Mega udana podwojna ciemna IPA. Stefan Horngaher jest fanem Metallici i Slasha wiec ja jestem teraz fanem tego malego browaru Bevog. Ciemne z refleksami czerwieni, ale przy samej nozce mojego teku. Piana spora kremowa nieco zolta, trwala. Aromaty kawy roubusty, czekoladowego puddingu, i tropikalne cytrusy. W smaku gozko, wytrawnie, zywica z chmieli, kawa, lukrecja, pumpernikiel i palone slody. Alkohol ukryty. Doskonale wytrawna mocna i bogato nachmielona ciemna jak noc BIPA, chyba jedna z moich ulubionych